New Year's Eve (2011) - Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfieffer, Zac Efron, Seth Meyers, Josh Duhamel, Jon Bon Jovi, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Robert De Niro. Written by Katherine Fugate. Directed by Garry Marshall. Rated PG-13. Available on HBO Go and DVD.
New Year's Eve follows several individuals and couples during New Year's Eve in New York, which is an amazing time of the year. If you were looking for this movie at the store, you would have to look next to the Cheetos because this is a giant cheeseball of a movie. The stories are unrealistic. The characters aren't all that interesting. The dialogue is terrible. The acting, despite the cast, is almost amateurish. It almost seems like everyone who worked on this film phoned it in. The only thing redeemable I found in this film was the fact that Robert De Niro did pretty well in it, but that was nowhere near enough to safe it. The jokes were stale. I wanted so much to laugh at Seth Meyers, who I think is hilarious and quite talented, but all the jokes were stale jokes. The lowest, and cheesiest moment, is definitely the Bon Jovi/Lea Michele duet montage while everyone is searching for love. On top of this, there was more product placement in this movie than I have ever seen before, which explains how they were able to pay so many actors to do a whole lot of nothing.
This movie almost made me want to never visit New York during the holidays. Almost.
Rating: 1 out of 5.
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